St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-09-19
FRIGID MARY AMBER SON.
How She Did Not Marry an En-.
glish Duke.


Says writer in the Brooklyn Citizen:
"a woman who knows Mary Ander-
son we'll gave mea curious explanation
of her Indifference to'all suitors. She
says that when our Mary first appeared
in England several years ago and cap
tured the heart of London, among her
victims was certain young duke, and
at that time not of age. He was quite
mad about her; and though her STEP
father pursued with him also his inflex-
Idle habit of repression, and saw an adj
vertlsement in the Snubbing of a duke,
the ardent young nObleman managed,
to convey some extremely passionate
letters to her in the baskets of superbi
flowers which he had handed over
the footlights almost nightly. The An
derSOn was half pleased and half fright
ened. The duke was even at that time
very attractive in appearance, and his
rank and immense wealth naturally did
not detract from his charms. She had
been carefully instructed before leaving
here, and had the lesson dinned in her
ears from Sandy Hook to the Mersey, to
turn a deaf ear to the willy words of
titled BritisherS, who were lOrdly villains,
every one. She heard and needed, and
allowed her Step-parentS to ruthleSSly
trample upon the ducal passion. The old
man himself was decidedly provincial,
and he himself believed that all English
nobiemen were as Enthusiastically and
immoral as he had taught Mary.
AT that time the impulSiVe young man
would have married Mary out of
hand If he had not been so badgered
and suspected by herself and her father,
and if they had been trifie less difficile
she would in this present year of our
Lord be the Duchess of -. By the
time Miss Anderson returned second
time to England she had gained knOwl-
edge sufficient of the world to be aware
of this fact, and her manner to her
whllOm sutton was far less auStere, but
be also had been learning in the mean
time. He had reached his majority and
had had season in London, where
mothers with manageable daughters
teach rich young man of rank his full
value. One little incident of
worth retailing. The unmarried
girls in London revolted that year
against the grasping, greedy maneuvers
OF the young matrons, who were not
content with their own prize, but were
essaying to keep the eligible bachelors
dangling in their train. This revolt
took the form of what was known as the
Rosebud ball, to which only one chap
eron was asked. Fifty young women of
wealth and position gave the dance, each
one having the privilege of inviting
five persons. On the morning of the
tenth day before the ball took place the
young duke had bulky mail. There
We're fifty invitations to the
Rosebud ball. Each one of the
young women had sent four
cards to her friends and one each
secretly sent the fifth to this most desir-
able young man. There was Homeric
laughter in London, and the nobleman
whom the actress rejected found him
self the chief cornerstone of eligibility.
He renewed his attentions to Miss An
derson, but in chastened form, since,
which time, though he has always been
most civil to her, he has not put himself
in position to be rejected. Some of his
friends--possibly Miss Anderson her.
self-believe that he has never cared for
any other woman, and will eventually
ask her to be his wife, and meantime she.
receives the advances of all other mem
with cool sweetness and refusal.